John Glasscock wrote:
>
> Swap can only use the same amount of HD space as you have RAM. It
> makes no sense to create a large swap partion unless you have immenent
> plans to increase the amount of RAM you have in your machine, which
> with linux is always a good thing to do.
Ok, there seems to be as many opinions on this issue as there are linux
users. I've heard that you should have twice the amount of swap space as
you do ram.
> The only problem with DiskDrake (and it is only a minor quibble) is
> that you can't easily manipulate where you want your partitions to
> go. You have to think and plan ahead, and then set them sequentially,
> ideally starting with a 32 MB /boot partition at the front of the
> disk, then your / partition, usw.
Ok, I think I'm in good shape here. The first 32 cylinder (16m) is my
/boot partition, cylinders 33-19818 (9738m) is my / partition, and the
the remaining cylinders, 19819-19885 are my 32m swap partition.
> Your system may be maxed out on ram, and I don't think I would spend
> much on it.
Nope, two of my four slots are open.
> However, its usefulness is far from over. It would make
> a decent print server or firewall. How big is your harddrive? How
> fast is it?
The hd. is a WD 10 gig, IDE, less than six months old. I don't have
permission to few /var/log/dmesg, so I can't give you the details at the
moment.
> Newbies
> probably NEVER touch their swap anyway until they have become familiar
> with downloading source code and doing recompiles of the kernal. Once
> you do that, you graduate to the next level :-)
Ok, the motivation for this endeavor was my roomate's comment that "its
slow," refering to KDE. I thought I might speed things up with more swap
space. I certainly have no complaints!
My roomate is biased though, he thinks I'm wasting my time with linux,
and this is after he spent $8k for a six month Help Desk course for
Windoze NT/2000.
Also, I'm very fond of this box. Last Septemeber it was under 30 feet of
water when Floyd flooded Bound Brook, NJ. My roomate literally pulled it
out of the mud, which still clings to the motherboard. (I'm afraid to
clean it off, if it's not broke, don't fix it.) All I did was replace
the HD and monitor, and voila, I had my first 586.
> Hope this is informative, and please correct me if I'm wrong.
Every post on this list is informative, and appreciated.
Darryl Gibson
Linux Neophyte (tm)
RLU # 182668
This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE
